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Power Plant – NZ Festival review

The constantly shifting sounds create an enormous variety of moods.

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Unmythable – NZ Festival review

The energy and spirit of Monty Python, lightly blended with a less deadpan version of Flight of the Concords.

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St John Passion – NZ Festival review

It has taken the Bach Collegium Japan 24 years to make their NZ debut - but it was well worth the wait.

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¡Paniora! – NZ Festival review

It is the dancing that stands out in this visually stunning production.

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Standing up for the gay world

Two performers work together so seamlessly it’s as if they are twin aspects of the same routine.

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Lutheran Masses – NZ Festival review

The Bach Collegium Japan leave their audience with a feeling of deep contentment.

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Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer – NZ Festival review

Rising to the challenge of "the Last Place on Earth".

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Hearing the echoes of WWI with Margaret MacMillan

Ukraine? “I’d say a prayer tomorrow, myself.”

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Diarmaid MacCulloch: committed to the Church – despite everything

So what is the point of Christianity, exactly? “To give us a sense of proportion and humility, not to be obsessed with our own salvation."

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Sandor Katz’s smelly food for a better future

“The refrigerator is a historical blip. It might be a historical bubble. We don’t know yet."

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner – NZ Festival review

Note to self: arson is wrong, arson is wrong ...

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Jung Chang: murder and modernisation, she wrote

The Empress Dowager Cixi was a great forward thinker ... although she did kill her adopted son as a final act.

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My Stories Your Emails – NZ Festival review

“Who’s come to the show this evening for what we might call pervy reasons?”

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Loretta Napoleoni and Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do

"A country like yours can be very successful, but you have to be careful, or they will take you over."

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Alison Bechdel! She exists! Fan-boy bliss

“I’ve always been obsessed with truth... I grew up in this house where there was a big lie, and it makes you a bit crazy.”

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Tales from the Forbidden City – NZ Festival review

Sometimes a foreboding City, too, but that was no deterrent to the audience.

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Out of the dark with Marcus Chown

"The problem with the universe is, of course, there’s only one universe and you can’t do experiments."

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Eleanor Catton, Max Porter and that “slim novella about astrology”

“I’d like to assume you’re all here because you’re editing fans. Editing is the new rock and roll. But I suspect ..."

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Is there anything Kei Miller doesn’t write?

There are poems, stories, essays, novels ... but not plays. "I’m terrible at dialogue."

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Jaspreet Singh and the forgotten genocide

"After burning people, the thugs took meal breaks and then they burned more people. And then they burned books."

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Eleanor Catton vs Harold Bloom? No contest

She covered ground so quickly there was shortly no ground left. We were in orbit.

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Reviewing the reviewer: Terry Castle

Terry Castle in conversation with Harry Ricketts.

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Beyond – NZ Festival review

Climbing the walls while they climb the poles.

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An Iliad – NZ Festival review

Homer's masterpiece told in such a way it feels as though we've never heard it before.

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Writers Week video collection

Recordings of speakers at the NZ Festival, including Listener Late Sessions.

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Age – NZ Festival review

A fresh new voice in New Zealand dance.

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Rian – NZ Festival review

The perfect Saturday night finale.

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Yo La Tengo – NZ Festival review

Daring, playful, entertaining, primal.

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Documenting disaster with Rebecca Macfie

"You don’t blow up a mine because one guy does one stupid thing on one day."

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Penetrating the inky darkness

Lemi Ponifasio rewards the patient with two contrasting new works.

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